# The Lenox Hill Townhouse Tastemakers Kept Choosing

> One narrow Upper East Side house collected Billy Baldwin, Woody Allen, and Geoffrey Bradfield, and now it wants $15 million.
- Title: The Lenox Hill Townhouse Tastemakers Kept Choosing | Shortify
- Summary: One narrow Upper East Side house collected Billy Baldwin, Woody Allen, and Geoffrey Bradfield, and now it wants $15 million. 116 East 61st Street is less a…
- Keywords: real estate, new york, interior design, townhouse, geoffrey bradfield, Lenox, Hill, Tastemakers, Kept, Choosing, Robb Report
- Source: Robb Report — https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/new-york-townhouse-geoffrey-bradfield-1238628689
- Author: Mark David
- Published: 2026-09-14T20:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: real estate, new york, interior design, townhouse, geoffrey bradfield
## One address, many legends
Some houses keep pulling in the same kind of person. A single townhouse on East 61st Street became a repeat address for the tastemakers who defined 20th century style.

> Birds of a feather tend to gravitate toward the same places
## Built in 1899, then split
The Lenox Hill residence went up as a single-family house at the end of the 19th century. It was later carved into apartments, which is how so many tenants passed through it.
## Billy Baldwin moved in
In the 1960s the decorator Billy Baldwin made the building his home, the first of the design world names attached to the address.
## Haslam upstairs, Allen above
English decorator and bon vivant Nicky Haslam reportedly lived there with banking heir Jimmy Davison. A young Woody Allen occupied the upper portion.
## Bradfield's home and office
Geoffrey Bradfield took the townhouse in 1978 and made it both residence and headquarters, working there for decades while hosting his celebrity and society clients.
## Now asking $15 million
The house is on the market through Sotheby's International Realty at $15 million, with a guest list of former residents no renovation could replicate.
## Key takeaway

116 East 61st Street is less a listing than a century-long address book of the people who shaped American taste.